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Navigating Microservices: Service Mesh Implementation Patterns & Best Practices
Navigating Microservices: Service Mesh Implementation Patterns & Best Practices
As organizations adopt microservice architectures on platforms like Kubernetes, managing the communication between these distributed services becomes increasingly complex. Challenges arise in areas like reliable request routing, securing inter-service traffic, gaining consistent observability, and enforcing network policies. A Service Mesh provides a dedicated infrastructure layer to address these challenges transparently, decoupling operational concerns from application code.
Service meshes work by injecting a lightweight network proxy (a “sidecar,” typically Envoy or a similar proxy) alongside each application container. These proxies intercept all network traffic entering and leaving the application, forming the data plane. A separate control plane manages and configures these proxies, enforcing policies and collecting telemetry.
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